Resource: Amadei v. Duke

The American Civil Liberties Union and Covington & Burling LLP filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of passengers of a domestic Delta Airlines flight who were held and searched by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents before being allowed to deplane. Every single passenger on Flight 1583 from San Francisco to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was stopped and had their identity documents seized and searched.